Part of the issue is that they’re effectively unemployed for 1/4 of the year (even though most teachers still do stuff for their job during that 1/4 of the year). Those 3 months aren’t paid time off. It’s unpaid. If it were PTO then they’d have an ok wage (still low, but it’d be much more livable).
That used the be the case when I was a kid. Now here in Maryland, specifically Mont. County the students get about 8ish weeks for summer vacation. That’s it. This year last day was June 18 and school started August 24th.
Two weeks, give or take. We got an extra last year because of Snowmageddon.
I will say that June 18 wasn’t the day we were SUPPOSED to end. We also get more weird days off during the school year. For instance, this entire school year so far, we’ve had only two weeks (out of eight or so) that have actually been full weeks. If not for a power outage that took out fourteen schools in one day, we would have had three.
Every other week has been four days or four and a half due to professional development and holidays, including this week, which has another, you guessed it, professional development day!
So yeah, we get less summer and only two weeks for winter, but we also have a crap ton of extra weird days in between, at least in my district.
We get out Last week of May and go back first week of August usually. With mandatory trainings in the summer, about a weeks worth. So two months, but maybe three other places.
Most places in Wisconsin start after Labor Day because years ago, the all powerful tavern league lobbied for that with our state so that bars and restaurants would have help until the holiday weekend was over.
They’re also the reason we’re one of the core Midwest states without legal cannabis.
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u/Simply_Epic 5h ago
Part of the issue is that they’re effectively unemployed for 1/4 of the year (even though most teachers still do stuff for their job during that 1/4 of the year). Those 3 months aren’t paid time off. It’s unpaid. If it were PTO then they’d have an ok wage (still low, but it’d be much more livable).